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2nd Mental Calculation World Cup 2006

Gießen, Germany, 4 November 2006

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Overall Ranking

rank
participant
score
1 Robert Fountain (Great Britain) 420,78
2 Jan van Koningsveld (Netherlands) 343,23
3 Gert Mittring (Germany) 308,34
4 Yusnier Viera Romero (Cuba) 299,15
5 Willem. Bouman (Netherlands) 260,53
6 Rüdiger Gamm (Germany) 239,44
7 Divesh Rama Shah (India) 214,82
8 Issam Khneisser (Libanon) 163,46
9 Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertas (Peru)* 157,15
10 Alberto Coto García (Spain)* 157,02
11 Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran) 150,81
12 Alexander Drygalla (Germany) 132,80
13 Ben Pridmore (Great Britain) 114,54
14 Valentin Barraud (France) 105,24
15 Matthias Kesselschläger (Germany) *
100,00
16 Silke Betten (Germany) 99,93
17 Melik Safi Duyar (Turkey) 80,19
18 Salvador Bisshopp Flores (Spain)* 78,79
19 Jean-Eric Pacaud (France) 66,83
20 Robin Wersig (Germany)
65,71
21 Tina Bauer (Germany) 62,13
22 Pooja Divesh Shah (India) 51,59
23 Mañana Rodriguez Francisco Javier (Spain)* 50,14
24 Kinjal Divesh Shah (India) 48,42
25 Beate Bischler (Germany)* 24,73
26 Nihar Mandlik (India)* 5,70
*: Did not take part in single events

Adding ten 10-digit numbers

(10 tasks in 10 minutes)

rank
participant
correct results, best of two rounds
1 Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertas (Peru) 10 in 342 seconds
2 Robert Fountain (Great Britain) 10 in 409 seconds
3 Salvador Bisshopp Flores (Spain) 10 in 434 seconds
4 Divesh Ramanlal Shah (India) 10 in 600 seconds
5 Alberto Coto García (Spain) 9
6
Jan van Koningsveld (Netherlands) 9
7 Rüdiger Gamm (Germany) 8
8 Gert Mittring (Germany) 7
9
Tina Bauer (Germany) 5
10
Kinjal Divesh Shah (India) 5
11
Melik Safi Duyar (Turkey) 5
12 Jean-Eric Pacaud (France) 4
12 Valentin Barraud (France) 4
14 Ben Pridmore (Great Britain) 3
15 Yusnier Viera Romero (Cuba) 3
15 Pooja Divesh Shah (India) 3
17 Issam Khneisser (Libanon) 3
18 Alexander Drygalla (Germany) 2
19 Silke Betten (Germany) 2
19 Beate Bischler (Germany) 2
21 Willem. Bouman (Netherlands) 1
22 Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran) 1
23 Nihar Mandlik (India) 0

Multiplying two 8-digit numbers

(10 tasks in 15 minutes)

rank
participant
correct results, best of two rounds
1
Alberto Coto García (Spain) 7
2
Jan van Koningsveld (Netherlands) 7
3 Gert Mittring (Germany)
6
4 Rüdiger Gamm (Germany) 6
5 Robert Fountain (Great Britain) 5
5
Yusnier Viera Romero (Cuba) 5
7 Divesh Ramanlal Shah (India) 3
8 Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertas (Peru) 3
9
Valentin Barraud (France) 2
10
Pooja Divesh Shah (India) 1
11
Silke Betten (Germany) 1
11 Ben Pridmore (Great Britain) 1
11 Willem. Bouman (Netherlands) 1
11 Jean-Eric Pacaud (France) 1
11 Melik Safi Duyar (Turkey) 1
16 Tina Bauer (Germany) 0
16 Beate Bischler (Germany) 0
16 Alexander Drygalla (Germany) 0
16 Nihar Mandlik (India) 0
16 Kinjal Divesh Shah (India) 0
16
Issam Khneisser (Libanon) 0
16
Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran) 0

Calendar Calculations

(one minute, dates from the years 1600-2100)

rank
participant
correct results, best of two rounds
1
Matthias Kesselschläger (Germany) 35
2
Yusnier Viera Romero (Cuba) 34
3
Jan van Koningsveld (Netherlands) 34
4
Rüdiger Gamm (Germany) 28
5
Alexander Drygalla (Germany) 23
6
Robert Fountain (Great Britain) 23
7
Robin Wersig (Germany)
23
8
Silke Betten (Germany) 20
9
Gert Mittring (Germany) 15
10
Issam Khneisser (Libanon) 11
11
Ben Pridmore (Great Britain) 8
12
Tina Bauer (Germany) 7
13
Melik Safi Duyar (Turkey) 7
14
Valentin Barraud (France) 5
15
Jorge Arturo Mendoza Huertas (Peru) 5
16
Divesh Ramanlal Shah (India) 3
16
Jean-Eric Pacaud (France) 3
18
Alberto Coto García (Spain) 2
18
Pooja Divesh Shah (India) 2
18
Kinjal Divesh Shah (India) 2
21
Willem. Bouman (Netherlands) 1
22
Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran) 1

Square Root from 6-digit numbers

(10 tasks in 15 minutes)

rank
participant
currect digits per task, best of two rounds
1 Robert Fountain (Great Britain) 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8 8
2 Gert Mittring (Germany) 8 7 7 8 8 8 8 8 4 7
3 Jan van Koningsveld (Netherlands) 8 8 8 5 8 8 0 3 8 6
4 Ali Bayat Movahhed (Iran) 5 7 3 6 7 7 8 3 7 8
5 Issam Khneisser (Libanon) 8 8 7 6 2 4 2 8 8 5
6 Willem. Bouman (Netherlands) 7 7 6 5 5 8 4 0 8 4
7 Mañana Rodriguez Francisco Javier (Spain) 8 4 8 4 2 3 5 8 5 3
8 Divesh Ramanlal Shah (India) 6 5 4 4 5 0 5 8 4 7
9 Yusnier Viera Romero (Cuba) 5 5 5 5 6 6 3 3 6 5
10 Valentin Barraud (France) 4 3 3 4 5 4 6 3 5 2
11 Rüdiger Gamm (Germany) 3 4 4 4 5 3 4 4 4 4
12 Alexander Drygalla (Germany) 6 3 4 5 2 2 2 1 5 2
13 Jean-Eric Pacaud (France) 2 4 3 2 3 1 6 4 4 2
14 Ben Pridmore (Great Britain) 3 2 3 3 4 2 4 3 4 4
15 Melik Safi Duyar (Turkey) 3 2 4 2 4 2 2 3 4 3
16 Silke Betten (Germany) 2 3 5 2 5 2 2 0 4 1
17 Pooja Divesh Shah (India) 5 2 6 2 1 1 1 1 1 2
18 Kinjal Divesh Shah (India) 5 0 5 3 0 2 0 0 0 4
19 Tina Bauer (Germany) 4 2 3 4 1 3 2 1 3 1
20 Beate Bischler (Germany) 4 3 1 1 0 0 3 6 0 1

The Task Sheets

Calendar: 1st round, 2nd round,
Multiplication: 1st round, 2nd round,
Addition: 1st round, 2nd round,
Square Roots: 1st round, 2nd round,
Surprise 1,
Surprise 2

CONTENTS: Mental Calculation World Cup Web Site | Maths Links
WORLD CUP 2006: General Information | Results | Mathematikum Gießen